IKGF Research Project:Optimism of Progress and Prognostication in Chinese Conceptions of Modernization

Curriculum vitae

Born on the 28th of September 1966 in Zürich

Research Interests

Chinese political thought; the history of ideas and modern China and Taiwan

Thematic foci: conceptions of expertocracy, progress and modernisation; Confucianism in China in the 20th century; Chinese intellectuals in exile; anti-colonialism in Taiwan.

Employment and Education

2004

Appointed Professor of Sinology (Chinese State and Society) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

2003

Habilitation at the University of Hamburg in Sinology ("Studies on China's Confucian renewal in the 20th century".)

2000-2004

Lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (During Winter Semesters).

1999

PhD in Sinology at the University of Hamburg (summa cum laude)

1998-2004

Research Assistant at the Department of Sinology, East Asia Institute, University of Zurich

1994

Licentiatus Philosophiae at the University of Zurich

1988-1994

Studied Sinology (major), political science (first minor), International Law (second minor) at the University of Zurich.

Grants, Scholarships, Research Award, Research Stays Abroad

July 2009

International Research Consortium in the Humanities "Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication. Strategies of Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe", Federal Minitsry of Education and Research

2008-2010

"Jiang Weishui Past and Present – the Enduring Impact of Anti-Colonial Activism in Taiwan"; funded by the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan

08/2007

Research stay in Taiwan in preparation for the project "Jiang Weishui Past and Present – the Enduring Impact of Anti-Colonial Activism in Taiwan"; 5th to 25th of September 2007. Funded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

06/2007

Guest lecturer at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik. Croatia, teaching the course "Modern Democratic Theories" 4th to 9th of June 2007

2007-2008

"Menzius in the context of classical Chinese philosophy – a reclassification with the inclusion of metaphorical thought from before the Imperial Era" funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung

02-04/2006,
08-10/2006

Research Stay in Beijing

10/2005

Research Stay in Beijing

2003

Scholarship from the University of Zurich /Swiss National Foundation for research at Academia Sinica, Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, (Taiwan), and at the Universities of Princeton and Harvard.

06-09/2003

Research at the Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan: "Studies on China's Confucian renewal in the 20th century".

08-09/2000

Research at the Institute of Taiwan History, Preparatory Office, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan, for the project "Crossroads of Nationalism in Taiwan. The obtrusiveness of Jiang Weishui (1891-1931)".